Welcome to R-Ladies St. Louis

Regular Expressions and Working with Text Strings

February 22, 2023

Materials for tonight

instll_pkgs <- c("stringr", "dplyr")

install.packages(instll_pkgs)

What is R-Ladies?

  • R-Ladies is a world-wide organization with the mission of promoting gender diversity in the R community

  • Started in San Francisco in 2012 and now has 206 chapters and more than 93,000 members globally (check out rladies.org for a Shiny dashboard)

R-Ladies St. Louis

Started in September 2017 by Jenine Harris and Chelsea West

Co-organizers for 2022-23 include:

  • Jenine Harris (Washington University)
  • Mary Painter (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Shelly Cooper (Washington University)
  • Crystal Lewis (Freelance Data Management Consultant)
  • Laura Rose (Hinge Health)

2023 Winter/Spring Schedule

We have several speakers planned for this semester.

  • Last Month: Intro to Linear Optimization with R with Ralph Asher (Data Driven Supply Chain)
  • Tonight: Regular Expressions and Working with Text Strings with Luis D. Verde Arregoitia (Instituto de Ecologia, Mexico)
  • Tuesday, March 21: R Markdown Tips and Tricks with Alex Knitter (Washington University)
  • Thursday April 13: Intro to data.table with Susanna Supalla (Hinge Health)

Announcements

  • We will be recording this talk

    • Feel free to turn off your cameras if you do not want to be recorded
  • Use the chat to ask questions (to everyone or directly to the host)


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About tonight’s speaker

  • Luis is a Mammalogist and R enthusiast
  • He studies ecology and evolution of small mammals and helps others with data cleaning and visualization in his spare time
  • Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Ecología (INECOL), México
  • He is also an RStudio and Software Carpentry certified trainer and he developed the unheadr and annotater packages